[HN Gopher] How big a deal was the Industrial Revolution? (2017)
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       How big a deal was the Industrial Revolution? (2017)
        
       Author : babelfish
       Score  : 13 points
       Date   : 2024-06-05 18:28 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
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       | Terr_ wrote:
       | > Life expectancy at birth is a pretty good proxy for how
       | physically healthy people are in general [...] (Note also that
       | improvements to life expectancy at birth are not entirely due to
       | falling rates of childhood mortality: see here.)
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       | Not _entirely_ but it is enough of a factor that naively
       | comparing life-expectancy stats without accounting for it is
       | probably a bad idea.
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       | IMO infant mortality improvements underlie _so much_ of the
       | demographic changes involved in a country 's industrialization,
       | economic development, and then cultural shifts.
        
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